Associahedron, cyclohedron and permutohedron as compactifications of configuration spaces

zbMATH Open1226.51004arXivmath/0612591MaRDI QIDQ983863FDOQ983863

Authors: Pascal Lambrechts, Victor Turchin, Ismar Volic 

Publication date: 13 July 2010

Published in: Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: As in the case of the associahedron and cyclohedron, the permutohedron can also be defined as an appropriate compactification of a configuration space of points on an interval or on a circle. The construction of the compactification endows the permutohedron with a projection to the cyclohedron, and the cyclohedron with a projection to the associahedron. We show that the preimages of any point via these projections might not be homeomorphic to (a cell decomposition of) a disk, but are still contractible. We briefly explain an application of this result to the study of knot spaces from the point of view of the Goodwillie-Weiss manifold calculus.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612591

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zbMATH Keywords

polytopesassociahedronpermutohedroncyclohedronhomotopy limitknot spacescompactifications of configuration spacesGoodwillie-Weiss manifold calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Shapes (aspects of topological manifolds) (57N25)

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